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ADiosgracias
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Exist that kind of prayers or every prayer is powerful if I said it with faith and love?
God likes some prayers more than others?
God likes some prayers more than others?
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R_C
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No, God likes all prayers as long as they are spoken from the heart 
One may argue that the most perfect of all prayers is the Lord’s Prayer, since it is the one taught by Christ Himself. But He later added that “the Father knows what we need even before we ask it”…making it clear that it’s not how many words we say, or what the words say…it’s the love that makes those words rise to God like the most precious incense, because they are the words of God’s children!
Holy Church has a tradition of wonderful prayers for the faithful - from the Liturgy of the Hours to the Holy Rosary to the litanies to the most common prayers - that are part of the treasure of the Church, but the prayers spoken with our own words are of course welcome to God, and there is one kind of prayer that stands above all else: contemplative prayer, in which - as the title of a notorious Spanish book on this topic reads - “we do not tell Him anything: we simply love Him”.
Let me share something…once I was praying before the Blessed Sacrament, and right below was a tiny basket for the faithful to put their prayer notes…I glanced down, and notice the topmost little piece of paper…it was a child’s note, unreadable…yet never words touched my heart so much as those…no passage of the Scriptures ever made me cry as much as that tiny child’s note for Jesus…truly, the kingdom of God belongs to those like them!
One may argue that the most perfect of all prayers is the Lord’s Prayer, since it is the one taught by Christ Himself. But He later added that “the Father knows what we need even before we ask it”…making it clear that it’s not how many words we say, or what the words say…it’s the love that makes those words rise to God like the most precious incense, because they are the words of God’s children!
Holy Church has a tradition of wonderful prayers for the faithful - from the Liturgy of the Hours to the Holy Rosary to the litanies to the most common prayers - that are part of the treasure of the Church, but the prayers spoken with our own words are of course welcome to God, and there is one kind of prayer that stands above all else: contemplative prayer, in which - as the title of a notorious Spanish book on this topic reads - “we do not tell Him anything: we simply love Him”.
Let me share something…once I was praying before the Blessed Sacrament, and right below was a tiny basket for the faithful to put their prayer notes…I glanced down, and notice the topmost little piece of paper…it was a child’s note, unreadable…yet never words touched my heart so much as those…no passage of the Scriptures ever made me cry as much as that tiny child’s note for Jesus…truly, the kingdom of God belongs to those like them!
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ChibiViolet
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The Rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mery and Stations of the Cross are very powerful. As are prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Lord’s prayer and the Hail Mary are also very powerful and so is any prayer that comes from the heart. Needless to say, the Mass is the most powerful form of prayer.
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gxensen
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I think God appreciates all prayers from the heart equally, but if I’m wrong, someone please correct me.
Anyway, the most powerful prayer which has had the most amazing affect on me…like that made me fill up with God’s Love, through our Lady Virgin Mary…the experience was, just, so radical. It’s hard to explain how amazing it was. I also couldn’t believe it. I just fell so…well…amazing…full again…innocently beautiful. 'Twas a grand emote thing.
It was The Morning Offering. Ironically, I decided to dedicate that prayer to Mary because I felt that the Rosary I had just finished praying was a bit lacking…since I’m still very new to praying the Rosary. So, after I was done saying, what I knew of, The Morning Offering…her love just swallowed me whole…it was amazing. Another thing worth mentioning was that I was too lazy to pull out my little “prayer booklet,” so I just paraphrased whatever I remembered from the The Morning Offering, getting at the general gist of the prayer…and it still worked…haha…it was just so Great.
I also really tried to say it from the heart, and really mean it…I just felt so awful that my mind would start wondering at times, when meditating on the mysteries…I had to recite The Morning Offering, for my Lady…
Anyway, the most powerful prayer which has had the most amazing affect on me…like that made me fill up with God’s Love, through our Lady Virgin Mary…the experience was, just, so radical. It’s hard to explain how amazing it was. I also couldn’t believe it. I just fell so…well…amazing…full again…innocently beautiful. 'Twas a grand emote thing.
It was The Morning Offering. Ironically, I decided to dedicate that prayer to Mary because I felt that the Rosary I had just finished praying was a bit lacking…since I’m still very new to praying the Rosary. So, after I was done saying, what I knew of, The Morning Offering…her love just swallowed me whole…it was amazing. Another thing worth mentioning was that I was too lazy to pull out my little “prayer booklet,” so I just paraphrased whatever I remembered from the The Morning Offering, getting at the general gist of the prayer…and it still worked…haha…it was just so Great.
I also really tried to say it from the heart, and really mean it…I just felt so awful that my mind would start wondering at times, when meditating on the mysteries…I had to recite The Morning Offering, for my Lady…
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IronMIke
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The Lord’s Prayer is most powerful and productive…, no mediator or intercession required.
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R_C
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We still speak to the Father through the Son, though
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domNoah
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I think you might find this useful
Any method of prayer (vocal or mental, ordinary or extraordinary) is not in itself better than any other type. The best method of prayer for me is determined by this particular time, these particular circumstances where I find myself. A simple “cry” toward the Lord, in the way the sick and poor of the Gospel cried, can be better for me, here, at this particular moment, than the most perfect ecstasy. (Rom8:26-27) Ravier, André, Fr. “Foreward.” A Do-it-at-home Retreat: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola According to the “nineteenth Annotation” San Francisco: Ignatius, 1991. 26. Print.
Any method of prayer (vocal or mental, ordinary or extraordinary) is not in itself better than any other type. The best method of prayer for me is determined by this particular time, these particular circumstances where I find myself. A simple “cry” toward the Lord, in the way the sick and poor of the Gospel cried, can be better for me, here, at this particular moment, than the most perfect ecstasy. (Rom8:26-27) Ravier, André, Fr. “Foreward.” A Do-it-at-home Retreat: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola According to the “nineteenth Annotation” San Francisco: Ignatius, 1991. 26. Print.
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